God Gave Me Faith To Believe

God Gave Me Faith To Believe

by | Jun 3, 2025 | Testimonies

Like many people in the world, I grew up with no faith and no knowledge of God. I walked with no regard for God, who created me, and I was comfortable with the things of this world. I regarded the things of the Bible as foolishness and vain imaginations of people desperate for something to comfort them. I am sure that I would have remained in this state of ignorance without God’s intervention. God opened my eyes to spiritual realities during my last year in Finland before I moved to the UK to study economics. It was at this time that I found myself asking questions that I had never asked before. Providentially, God brought into my life a Christian classmate who spoke of the things of the Lord to me. I was curious about the things that she shared with me, but I could not just take her word for it. As I started reading the Bible, I read about things that I had never heard before. I thought maybe these words are true, yet I struggled to accept that this really is so. I remember asking God for supernatural signs to prove that He exists. He never gave me one, but instead He gave me faith to believe what I was reading. This Word – the inspired Scriptures,

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Coming To Faith Through Success and Failure

Coming To Faith Through Success and Failure

by | Jun 3, 2025 | Testimonies

I come from humble beginnings, and my parents did everything they could to provide me with every opportunity to succeed. Neither of my parents would let my sister or me get away with not saying please or thank you. We would attend church, say grace before dinner, prayers before bed; God was in my life, but I didn’t fully know him. I grew up active. Participated in sports, played games in the yard, and had sleepovers with my friends. I was a good student with decent grades. I made the high honour roll and even earned the prized possession of a bumper sticker proclaiming this. My athletic career was also blessed. I was the leading running back my freshman year, and by my junior year I was a star on the football team. As my popularity around campus grew, the student body voted me to the homecoming court all four years of high school. Amid what I imagine was a life that many kids would dream of, my struggles began. I look back and think that, perhaps, if I had known God was to thank for all that I was blessed with, my life would have been different. In addition to my success in football and the classroom, I fell in love for the first time. I felt like I

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